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Monday, April 2, 2018

April block for Hive 6: Bow Ties

Queen Marie originally posted her tutorial on the Hive 6 Facebook page and has been having trouble getting logged into the blog while traveling. Rest assured, she posted on time! ~Emily

Good Morning fellow bee mates and Happy Easter/Passover/Spring to you all

Here in Maine it finally feels like warmer weather might actually
arrive, but definitely not here yet. I'm envious of those of you
looking at daffodils.

So, for my Queen Bee Month I've chosen a
simple block that I hope will be easy and quick. The picture below is
of the quilt I'm putting together for my brother. I've blacked/whited
it so you can see the values needed rather than the colors. You can
choose whether you make a block from the outer light background with
mediums or the inner medium background and darks. The colors are mostly
browns and grays and can be anything you think a male in your family
might like.

The second picture is of the fabrics I pulled together. The back row
across is the background fabric and the front rows are the bow tie
fabrics.

To make the block, take 2 matching 2"squares and place
them, right sides together, in one corner of the 3" background squares.
Draw a diagonal line on the wrong side of the 2" square. (picture 3).

Stitch on marked line. Trim outer corner, leaving a 1/4" seam
allowance. Press toward dark fabric. Make 2. Take the 2 matching 3"
squares and stitch to the corner units as shown in picture 4. The block
will be 5 1/2". Make 4 of these units but please do not sew them
together. This is a scrappy quilt and I'm going to arrange them once I
get them all together. If you have any questions at all, feel free
to ask away. Thank you so much for helping with this! I think my
brother is going to love it!❤️❤️❤️